Counting singular matrices with primitive row vectors

DOI10.1007/S00605-004-0250-7MaRDI QIDQ1769062zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Wigman

Publication date 17 March 2005

Published in Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305066

zbMATH Keywords

latticesprimitive vectorssingular matricessublattices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07)

Abstract: We solve an asymptotic problem in the geometry of numbers, where we count the number of singular $nimesn$ matrices where row vectors are primitive and of length at most T. Without the constraint of primitivity, the problem was solved by Y. Katznelson. We show that as $Toinfty$, the number is asymptotic to $frac(n-1)u_{n}zeta(n)zeta(n-1{)}^n{T}^{n^2-n}log(T)$ for $nge3$. The 3-dimensional case is the most problematic and we need to invoke an equidistribution theorem due to W. Schmidt.

Review text

Let \(M_n(T)\) be the set of all \(n\times n\) singular integral matrices whose row vectors have Euclidean length at most \(T\). \textit{Y. R. Katznelson} [``Singular matrices and a uniform bound for congruence groups of \(\text{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z})\), Duke Math. J. 69, 121--136 (1993; Zbl 0785.11050)] gave an asymptotic formula for the number of these matrices as \(T\) tends to infinity. Here the author studies the number of those matrices of \(M_n(T)\) whose rows are primitive, i.e., they are not an integral multiple of an integer vector. For \(T\to\infty\) he proves that this number is asymptotically of order \((n-1)\mu_n/(\zeta(n)\zeta(n-1))T^{n^2-n}\log(T)\), where \(\zeta(n)\) denotes the \(\zeta\)-function and \(\mu_n\) depends, roughly speaking, on the parity of \(n\).

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